2026 Frozen Four

[wildfire]

When Ohio State's girls came to the bench gesturing that Wisconsin covered the puck in the crease I can't help wondering what they saw that the refs didn't on the review? It makes no differenc now but I'm definitely curious.

Athletes on the ice/field/court see things in a flash from one perspective. Reviews can include multiple camera angles and slow motion. They were hardly the first athletes to get it wrong.

 

[Russell Jaslow]

Athletes on the ice/field/court see things in a flash from one perspective. Reviews can include multiple camera angles and slow motion. They were hardly the first athletes to get it wrong.

True. But doesn't every team have coaches up high who are also looking at video replays to inform the bench coach whether to challenge or not? Maybe everyone felt it was worth the gamble considering the moment.

 

[BuckyB]

That was the dumbest challenge since the inception of video.
The timing, the game on the line, already up 6 on 5 with an end zone faceoff.
Cmon, it just can’t be defended to make that challenge.

 

[ARM]

That's true for the WCHA tournament trophy. I'm not sure that it is true for the regular season travelling trophy.

There were always trophies, but the current traveling ones were introduced later. One of the stranger early varieties looked like some crystal vase that would live in a china cabinet and tended to be barely visible in championship photos. Luckily, I don't remember any stories of them being shattered on the ice.

The current regular season trophy has been around since 2019:

Julianne Bye Cup - Western Collegiate Hockey Association

The home of a record 21 national championships, the Western Collegiate Hockey Association presented a new regular-season championship trophy named in honor of longtime

wcha.com

The tournament trophy Lindsay is describing is this one:

Final Faceoff Trophy - Western Collegiate Hockey Association

The home of a record 21 national championships, the WCHA now has the league postseason hardware to match its standing as the country’s premier women’s college hockey

wcha.com

 

[davearm]

That was the dumbest challenge since the inception of video.
The timing, the game on the line, already up 6 on 5 with an end zone faceoff.
Cmon, it just can’t be defended to make that challenge.

The overhead angle that was first shown sure made it look like the Badger skater was on top of the puck in the crease. (The second angle showed that she wasn't.)

If OSU only had that first look, then they'd be crazy not to challenge.